What are those things called that people who live in big houses store liquid gas in because they don't have pipped gas

[StephenBelafonte]

For the life of me I can't think of the word.

piped gas, not pipped gas

Propane bottles

Tanks? The bit things in the garden?

We had gas in canisters in our previous house.

Big not bit

We had a propane tank massive thing on the side of the garage. It got filled 2 or 3 times a year.

We have two huge tanks of LPG hidden in our garden. Is that what you mean?

Gas canisters? Or oil tanks? Some people have propane tanks...

Er... it’s a tank. A gas tank.

yeah the great big things that store lots of liquid gas, enough to last all winter - what are they called? Is it just oil tanks?

Canisters or bottles we have two 34kg propane ones for gas hob

If you have Calor gas, it’s a Calor Tank

Bulk tank gas

Thanks peeps lol. I guess they're just called oil tanks then. I had it in my head that they had a special name like a septic tank does.

@StephenBelafonte

yeah the great big things that store lots of liquid gas, enough to last all winter - what are they called? Is it just oil tanks?

Oil tanks are for kerosene

Gas is gas tank, or LPG tank or if you use calor to supply it a calor tank

www.calor.co.uk/home-energy/new-to-lpg/my-options/lpg-installation-options?tabname=above-ground-lpg-tank

I guess they're just called oil tanks then.

No. Oil tanks hold oil. Gas tanks hold gas.

We live in an area without a gas supply and there are 2 main alternatives - oil or LPG. Oil tanks are usually big green plastic things and LPG cannisters tend to be more cylindrical (in our area at least.) Most people have oil near us.
They aren't just for "big houses" though. More or less everyone in our village has one or the other, however big or small the house. There are one or two that have more unusual heating systems like a biomass boiler or a ground or air source heat pump but the vast majority of houses have a tank of some kind to hold their heating fuel.

Pipped gas. I don't know why that made me giggle.